Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-08-10

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s. 100000. 1t says: s'fhe loss in Augusta
falls on that portion of our citizens who
are least able to bear it, and there are cases
and many-that are nov subjects for pri-
vate and public benevolence."
John Beall, thirteen years of age, who
has been in Jail at Eaton, Ohio, six weeks
n the charge of killing his mother, has
madea confession to the prosecuting attor-
ney, the sheriff and ex-sheriff. No mo-
tive for his crime can be assigned, except
that he was angry at what seemed TO him
to be evidences Of favoritism shown to his
sister by his mother. On the day Of the
murder he expected to go to Eaton with
his mother to get a ley suit Of clothes, but
instead his father took his sister to town,
and thus he was left at home with his
mother.
The Kansas Legislature having limited
passenger rates in that State to three cents
per mile, the railroad commissioners pro-
pose to have the law literally enforced
without any modification. The st. Joseph
and Grand Island Company asked that
where its stations were nine miles apart 1t
might be permitted to charge an even
thirty cents for the distance, but the COM
missioners decided that the charge cannot
exceed twenty-seven cents, although the
company will be allowed to make it TWEEN
ty.ffve cents if it is anxious about the even
change.
Says the Philadelphia Press: The Uni
ted States has 81, 200, 900 of population
against $4,000, 900 in the census year, 1880,
very nearly one-third ofthe addition being
fromsimmigration. But while adding 80
heavily by steamship and in other ways
to the mouths to be fed, the United States
is growing no more wheat, cotton, corn or
hogs, has less sheep and only II per cent.
more milch COWS than seven years ago.
1t has added $1,000 miles to its railroads,
two-thirds to the pig iron product and
doubled its copper output. But Its food
supply is no larger than seven years ago.
Justice Miller, of the United States Su-
preme Court, has granted a writ of error
in the case of Maxwell. the ST. Louis trunk
murderer. MI. Fauntleroy, n of the
attorneys for Maxwell, selected Justice
Miller because that gentleman seemed to
him the most humane. ne having already
granted writs to two st. Louis murderers.
MI. Fauntelroy asserts that there are con
stitutional points involved, but this is a
legal license, as the most astute cOnstitu-
tional lawyers fail to find them. The ef-
feet of this order will be to bring the case
of the little chloroformer before the United
States Supreme Court on constitutional
points raised by the defence. AS it can
not be heard within the time specified in
the sentence, the issuance of the writ will
act as a supersedeas and stay the execu-
ton. Maxwell was to have been hanged
on the 18th instant.
= The returns from the election for chief
of the Cherokees indicate that Mayes has
been chosen over Bunch by a small major
ity. Joel B. Mayes, the newly elected
chief, is one-quarter Cherokee, and belongs
to an illustrious family. He was Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of the Cher
okee Nation for a term of years, and is
an able and distinguished man. Samuel
Smith, who was elected Assistant Chief, is
a ull-blooded Cherokee. The triumph of
Mayes will completely change the political
situation of the Cherokee country. Bushy
Head and Bunch have held office for years,
and have shaped the policy of the Chero-
kee Nation, regardless of the wishes of
their control, and their defeat is regarded
as miraculous. Mayes is liberal and pro-
sgressive, and is pledged to reform. He is
chosen for a four-year term.
A Salt Lake, Utah. dispatch says: The
question of the successorship to the Presi-
dency. of the Mormon Church has been
settled temporarily by the appearance of
an address signed by MILFORD Woodruff,
President of the Apostles. He says: "As
upon two former occasions in our history,
the duty and responsibility Of presiding
over and directing the affairs of the Church
of Jesus Christ in all the world devOlves
upon the twelve apostles. With the bless
ing of the Lord and the faith and prayers
of the people, we hope to do our duty until
we, too, shall be laid to rest" 1t has been
thought by some that either George @.
Cannon or Joseph Smith, son of the origi-
nal Joseph, would assume the leadership.
Woodruff is in the regular line of success
sion and in his address assuming control
would indicate that there is to be no de-
parture from the orders. Woodruff is 80
years old and a man of mediocre ability.
He has been in hiding two years, and is
still out of sight to all saw the faithful"
- A terrible tragedy occurred at II o'clock
last Sunday night in a private room in the
Kimball House, Atlanta. E. M. Horn,
one of the most prominent citizens of At
lanta, "a instantly killed by Col. Bud
Veal, equally prominent. Col. Sam Ven
able and Veal were engaged in a %isticuff,
when Horn and several other gentlemen
the floor with Venable on top. Veal man
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! pocket and fred twice in quick succession.
Horn was shot through the brain and died
in less thar a minute. Horn came to At
lanta from Cincinnati a few years ago.
He was the owner of large granite quarries
and had a contract for building the State
capitol. Veal is in Jail. The affair occa-
stoned intense excitement on account of
the prominence of all parties connected
with it.
The war in Taylor county, Kentucky,
over the railroad tax continues, an effort
made in a conference between the citizens
commission and the bondholders' lawyers
having failed. The United States Marshal
has returned to Campbellsville to continue
making levies. The last hope of an ami
cable adjustment is gone, and riot seems
inevitable. Two more mandamuses have
Just been issued by the Circuit Court-one
to Judge Bass of Taylor county to lay an
additional tax Of 35 cents on the 500 to
pay the interest of s2,068 on the railroad
bonds, and one to Judge Towles of Green
county, to levy S2.04 on each 500, to salts
fly an execution for $21 ,065 on bonds issued
for the same road over which Taylor coun-
ty is involved. The first sales will be made
about the 18th instant. A big crowd will
be present from Green county as we'll as
AdylOl, anu Colliolou uoI"oou eliO SAomu
and the buyers for the bondholders will
occur when the buyers try to remove the
property.
One of the most brutal butcheries ever
recorded occurred about twelve miles from
Macon, Ga, last Friday night, in the MUIR
der Of the Voolfolk family, consisting of
nine members, Capt. and Mrs. r. F. Wool
folk, their six children, ranging in ages
from 10 months to 20 years, and Mrs. West,
an aunt of Mrs. Voolfolk, aged 80. The
against Thos. G. Voolfolk, a son of the